Kohlschreiber fails – Brown is unlucky

Philipp Kohlschreiber loses at the ATP tournament in Sofia against a Bosnian. In Montpellier, Dustin Brown is stopped by an injury.

Maximilian Marterer has reached the round of sixteen at the ATP tournament in the Bulgarian capital Sofia.

The 22-year-old won his opening match against the Tunisian Malek Jaziri 7:6 (7:4), 6:4 and will meet the Portuguese Joao Sousa in the next round.

Philipp Kohlschreiber, on the other hand, will have to wait for his first victory of the year.

Twenty-three days after his first-round win at the Australian Open, the Augsburg player lost his last sixteen against Mirza Basic (Bosnia-Herzegovina), who had eliminated Florian Mayer the previous day, 5:7,6:7 (5:7). In the first round of the tournament, which was endowed with 561.345 Euro, Kohlschreiber had a walk-through.

At the ATP tournament in Montpellier, Dustin Brown had to give up before the match.

The 33-year-old already led against the Frenchman Nicolas Mahut with 7:6 (7:2) and 5:2 – before he apparently injured his back.

The day before, qualifier Yannick Maden, who had reached the main field of an ATP tournament for the first time this year, missed the jump into the round of the last 16 with a 1-6,6-4,6-7 (3-7) defeat of Gilles Simon (France). Meanwhile, Mischa Zverev had already failed in his first appearance at the Australian Open on Monday after his first appearance in the first-round match at Benoit Paire (France).